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LOT 125:
Sachsenhausen concentration camp - prisoner testimonies. Berlin, [1946] - First Edition
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Sachsenhausen concentration camp - prisoner testimonies. Berlin, [1946] - First Edition
KZ SACHSENHAUSEN - Sachsenhausen concentration camp - 'The main committee 'Victims of Fascism' - an early collection of about 10 testimonies of prisoners who survived from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Berlin, published by Lucy Grosser. Foreword by Karl Schroder. Berlin [1946] - first edition. German. Rare.
"I worked from July 1942 until the day we left on April 21, 1945 at the Angora rabbit farm belonging to the camp right next to the crematorium. The victims of the Hitler system led us past our place of work, under our eyes to the human slaughterhouse. There were not many days during this long time that I did not see people walking their last path. .. Between the years 1942 and 1945 I saw tens of thousands of people marching to their deaths under the auspices of the SS in Sachsenhausen" - first-hand testimonies of 10 different prisoners who survived Sachsenhausen camp, some of whom were in the camp for several years, detailing the horrors of the camp. The executions, the deficient nutrition and starvation in the camp, the killing process in the crematorium, the gas chamber in the camp disguised as bathrooms, the horrifying experiments performed on the prisoners' bodies, the work of the Nazi hangmen, the abuse, the operation of the crematoria, forced labor, Nazi cruelty towards Jews, the struggle to survive, and more. From the early publications about the horrors of Sachsenhausen.
The Sachsenhausen concentration camp (KZ Sachsenhausen) was the main concentration camp for the Berlin area during the Nazi regime. It was established in the Sachsenhausen district of the city of Oranienburg, a northern suburb of Berlin, as one of three concentration camps established at the time in Germany for opponents of the Nazi regime (along with Dachau and Buchenwald). The camp operated as a Nazi concentration camp between the years 1936-1945, and according to estimates, close to 100,000 people were killed in the camp out of the 200,000 prisoners imprisoned there. Immediately after the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the German police arrested 900 of Berlin's Jews, who were imprisoned in Sachsenhausen. Also imprisoned in Sachsenhausen were Jews without German citizenship who fled from Eastern Europe ("Ost Juden"), and Jews who were brought from other places.
39 p. 21 cm. Very good condition.
